Posts Tagged ‘permits’
Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Well, here’s the new SoMA Streatfood Park, betwixt the I-beams of the Central Freeway (near the western terminus of I-80) and Store #144, America’s First Urban Costco.
I guess I passed through the place early – it looked like a ghost town when I was there.
But the Yelpers, well, they love it.
As does Amanda Gold. And the Wall Street Journal reminds us that the SFP is just a short “stroll” from the $3.2 million penthouse at 9 Bernice.
And, oh, KQED’s Jenny Oh offers her photos and impressions here.
Say cheese!
The entrance at 428 11th:
Les mise-en-scene – reminds me of the spare vehicle lot / junkyard of Veterans Cab Co, which is what this place used to be. Instead of busted Plymouth Gran Furies we now have food trucks:
Open-air communal dining, redolent of the Main Pavilion at Jonestown:
Ah, here are the trees on Division shown in the plans. All this new activity has chased away the under-the-freeway stolen bicycle fences all the way to….
…just across Division Street:
Now, speaking of parking, here’s what you’ll see across the street from the main entrance: ”PARKING IS FOR COSTCO SHOPPERS ONLY – Violators Will Be Towed”
So, you’ve been warned.
I don’t know, I’m sure it was a royal PITA to get the SFP up and running. And I know that the gestation period for this new baby was longer than a rhino’s, but of course a lot of that had to do with setting up the handicapped-accessible bathrooms and the pavillion and whatnot.
What I don’t know is how things will shake out for the SFP over the next year or two. This could be a case of a K-selection strategy in an r-selection environment.
We’ll see.
M-F: 11 AM to 3 PM and 5 PM to 10 PM
Weekends: 11 AM to 10 PM
People on the street eating chicken and meat
People eating pork with a knife and a fork
Tags: 11th, 2012, 428, bathroom, bay area, california, Carlos Muela, costco, department, dinner, fire, food, food park, fort mason, freeway, harrison, health, i-80, lot, lunch, Matthew Cohen, off the grid, park, parking, permits, photos, Planning, San Francisco, soma, SoMa Street Food Park, street, StrEeT Food Park, tacos, vendors, VETERAN'S CAB, yelp
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
It’s time once again for How Weird, so dress appropriately and get on out there:
“San Francisco’s festival season begins
SUNDAY MAY 13th
from Noon to 8pm
Howard & 2nd Streets, Downtown San Francisco
The 13th annual How Weird Street Faire
13 music and performance stages
spread throughout 13 city blocks!”
Ah memories: Second Street in the SoMA:
The San Francisco Atheists:
Getting help with those hard-to-paint areas:
via nsbarr
The largest boombox in the world. These go to twelve:
Open air hookah on Howard Street:
Kate O’Brien’s Irish Bar & Grill did land office business, what with the food, booze and sexy ladies.
via Steve Rhodes
Tags: 2012, annual, area, Atheists, bay area, Brad, brad olsen, california, Dance, day, department, dept., dj, donation, fair, faire, fees, First, founder, how, how weird, how weird street faire, howard, may, may 13, may 13th, mission, mom, mothers, mta, Muni, noon, olsen, olson, party, permits, police, police department, San Francisco, second, SFPD, soma, south of market, street, weird
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
The SoMA StrEAT Food Park will be opening soon, or so they say.
Here’s how things look at the old location of Veteran’s Cab just across the street from America’s First Urban Costco:
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Let’s hope the food truck fad doesn’t end before an existing parking lot can open up as a parking lot…
Tags: 11th, 2012, bay area, california, Carlos Muela, costco, department, dinner, fire, food, food park, fort mason, harrison, health, lot, lunch, Matthew Cohen, off the grid, park, parking, permits, Planning, San Francisco, SoMa Street Food Park, street, StrEeT Food Park, tacos, vendors, VETERAN'S CAB
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
OMG, this is it. [Cue O Fortuna]
It’s the fourth anniversary of obscenely-highly-regarded Ike’s Place, so ScoutMob has a free sandwich deal for you.
You can’t beat that.
(I guess Ike won that NIMBY war after all. Good for him.)
Anyway, enjoy.
Count of Monte Chase-O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
always waxing
or waning;
hateful NIMBYs
first oppress
and then soothe
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
but Hot Momma Huda
melts them like ice.
Fate – monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
stand malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague Ike Shehadeh too;
now through trickery,
I bring my bare back
to your NIMBY villainy.
Fate, in health
and in virtue,
is against me,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating string;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me
Mayoose’s CA-BLT
Tags: 15th, 16th, 17th, 2011, 3489 16th, bay area, busy, california, Carmina Burana, castro, code, deal, district, Elvis Kieth, free, great, groupon, Ike, Ike Shehadeh, ike's, ike's place, lines, lunch, nimby, noe, o fortuna, order, permits, phone, San Francisco, sanchez, sandwich, sandwiches, scout mob, scoutmob, share, Shehadeh, street, Ugly Owl, Vegan Ugly Owl., wait, yelp
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle Urban Design Writer John King was in fine form over the weekend:
“They know how to win a regatta. Soon, we’ll learn if organizers of the 2013 America’s Cup also know how to keep legitimate concerns from becoming full-scale controversies.
If they don’t, a huge project with a rare degree of support in San Francisco could find itself the target of sniping by second-guessers from all sides. The event organizers also could find themselves scrambling for permits as the clock ticks down in a time frame that leaves no room for error.
That’s why it makes sense to make a few concessions early – such as Cup officials clearly stating that they will not seek to build marinas along the downtown waterfront after the conclusion of the summer-long sailing spectacle.”
Is there anyone left in town who thinks that former Mayor Gavin Newsom did a good job negotiating the America’s Cup agreement? Or, at this point, even an average job? Not to my knowledge.
So our Road to AC13 will be full of nails and garbage pails – of that you can be certain. But it’s nice having John King around to mind the store, in’nt?
JK OTJ in SF – The Man in the Trilby Hat:
Via Justin Beck – click to expand
Gaia Bless John King
Tags: 2011, 2012, 2013, America's Cup 2013, Americas Cup, bay area, boat, california, catamaran, chronicle, concessions, design, gavin newsom, John King, larry ellison, Mayor, Mayor Gavin Newsom, permits, race, San Francisco, sfgate, urban, Urban Design Writer, waterfront, Writer, yacht
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
I’d put this one in the “Worthy Initiative” category, but some parking lot owners might not.
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I could see this saving a few lives over the years…
All the deets:
“Legislation by Chiu, Wiener, and Herrera takes on security issues at parking garages and lots
Proposed amendment to SF Police Code seeks to improve the safety of patrons of San Francisco’s vibrant entertainment industry and the surrounding neighborhoods
SAN FRANCISCO (Sept. 29, 2011) — Board of Supervisors President David Chiu, Supervisor Scott Wiener, and City Attorney Dennis Herrera today announced a major legislative step to curb late night public nuisance and criminal activities in parking garages and lots, in particular at those garages and lots near entertainment establishments. The proposed ordinance seeks to amend sections of the San Francisco Police Code regarding commercial parking permits and empower the City Attorney’s Office to pursue civil action against those who violate those sections.
“Making parking lots near nightclubs more secure will make it safer for people to patronize our vital entertainment industry,” said Supervisor David Chiu. “I appreciate the opportunity to work with Supervisor Wiener, City Attorney Herrera and the industry to put forward this much-needed legislation.”
More deets after the jump
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Tags: 2011, bay area, board of supervisors, california, city attorney, club, commercial, criminal, David Chiu, dennis herrera, Entertainment, garages, legislative, lighting, lots, nightclubs, nuisance, ordinance, parking, permit, permits, police, Police Code, president, public, San Francisco, Scott Wiener, security plan, Security Plans for Commercial Parking Garages and Lots, SFPD, Supervisor
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
[UPDATE: And cabbies, you can just forget about your proposed strike right now, as nobody takes that seriously. What would your union-type slogan be, "Every Man For Himself?" I'm telling you, MUNI is constantly hiring bus drivers, so you all should switch rides and, you know, drive a bus. And then you could, with impugnity, call your passengers r-tards or whatever you want. Hurray!]
I’ll tell you, those poor melon farmers out there in the West Bay trying to scratch a living from the infertile sandy soils of the Outer Avenues, well, not only is their MUNI bus and streetcar service bad, taxi service is bad as well.
Now, your hack might not actually want to take you to 42nd and Ortega or whatever, but s/he is required by law to take you there because, technically, the Outer Sunset in within the limits of San Francisco County.* So maybe that’s OK, but what about the times when you want to get picked up at home and you live Way Out There? Well, there’s no onus on any particular driver to come and pick you up, so that’s part of the reason why you have to wait a long, long time sometimes.
Comes now the staffers of the SFMTA with a solution: A $5 “Peak-Time Radio Dispatch Fee,” but not just for Parksiders of the Great San Wastes and the like, it’s supposed to be for everybody calling for a cab. That means that you will owe the driver over $8 before you even get into the taxi. Hurray!
Learn all about it right here, courtesy of John Han’s Taxi Town SF.
This super-genius idea came from a study from 2007 that concluded that San Francisco ought to:
“Implement a $5 dispatch surcharge during peak periods
Implement a $2 surcharge during non-peak periods.”
This will make the hacks happy as well the hack bureaucracy. It’s a win-win, baby!
But check it, the SFMTA is, once again, working on (or at least pretending to be working on) Peak-Time Permits, which would accomplish the goals that the SFMTA says it wants to accomplish.
Sometimes, when all the buses you see are going to the wrong way, a taxi’s the only way to get to your destination in time, right?
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All the deets of all the proposed new fees:
Radio dispatch fee: $2 flat fee during nonpeak hours; $5 flat fee during peak hours
Gas surcharge fee: $0.10 per one-fifth mile, $0.10 per minute of wait time
Wait time and mileage fare: From $0.45 per one-fifth mile ($2.25/mile) to $0.55 per one-fifth mile ($2.75/mile), and $0.45 per minute ($27/hour) to $0.55 per minute ($33/hour).
And look, the SFMTA is going to have Taxi Town Hall Meetings before the big meeting on May 17th:
“May 11, 2011, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Meter Increase, Credit Card Fees and Passenger Information Monitors, (PIMs)
May 16, 2011, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Electronic Waybills and Peak Time Permits
2nd Floor Atrium, One South Van Ness Avenue”
See you there!
*True dat. The crime is a misdemeanor called “Failure to Convey.”
Tags: 2011, 5, bay area, cab, cabby, california, dispatch, driver, during, Electronic Waybills, fee, fees, gasoline, meetings, Meter Increase, Muni, passenger Information Monitors, peak, Peak Time, Peak Time Permits, periods, permits, PIMs, San Francisco, SFMTA, strike, surcharge, taxi, Taxi Town, town hall
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Friday, March 25th, 2011
The 12th Annual How Weird Street Faire is coming to SoMA at noon, May 1st, 2011. So dust off your cowboy hat and go, why not?
This could be you come May Day 2011:
(In Soviet Russia, we had to make big travel to get to Burning Man, but in San Francisco, Burning Man travels to you. What a country!)
MYTHICAL REALMS
The 12th annual How Weird Street Faire
Sunday May 1, 2011
Noon to 8pm
Howard and 2nd Streets, San Francisco, Earth
http://www.HowWeird.org
All the deets after the jump!
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Tags: $10, 10th, 1st, 2010, 2011, 2nd, annual, area, Atheists, bollyweird, bollywood, Brad, brad olsen, california, Dance, day, department, dept., dj, donation, fair, faire, fees, First, founder, how, how weird, how weird street faire, howard, india, may, mission, mom, mothers, mothers day, mta, Muni, music, noon, olsen, olson, party, permits, police, police department, San Francisco, second, SFPD, soma, south of market, street, weird
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Monday, March 7th, 2011
Well, first it was all like this, and then it was all like this, but now it’s like you can’t legally sell food from a food truck how many hundreds of feet from a legacy restaurant? Isn’t that called corporate welfare when you try to protect struggling bidnesses from competition? (Alls I know is that the Golden Gate Restaurant Association thinks this whole sitch is “fair,” which is a big fat clue that it’s not.)
Anywho, this was the scene on (speaking of corporate welfare) Tenth Street in SoMA betwixt Market and Mission over the weekend on Saturday. The white signs say “DPW Mobile Food Permits – Line Starts Here,” or something. (I could have broken stride to check, I could have stopped to actually talk with these poor souls, you know, to find out, but I haven’t renewed my journalistic license since the SFPD started charging $50 a year…)
Is the new mobile food fad just another “DEAD END” for gastronomic entrepreneurs? (Not sure if this new gold rush is ending or if its still beginning, actually.)
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Anyway, Bon Courage, Tent City denizens!
Tags: $10, 10th, 2011, bay area, bevan dufty, california, dpw, food, ggra, golden gate restaurant association, law, Line, market, mission, mobile, permits, queue, restaurant, San Francisco, sfdpw, SFPD, street, tent city, tenth, tents, weekend
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
(Ooh, ooh, let me answer my own question, me first.)
Residential parking permits don’t relate to “Transit First” AT ALL.
However, the NIMBYs just looooooove them and the NIMBYs are highly motivated to protect what’s theirs and grab more, more, more.
Ever more NIMBYs of San Francisco say, “Ooh, us too!”
Such is the state of middle class welfare* in the 415, where you can vote your neighborhood into the program but you can’t vote yourself out – it’s not allowed.
Oh well.
*Or upper class. Writer Danielle Steel has/had 26 permits for 26 vehicles, or at least she used to. Apparently, it’s hard out here for a pimp, what with all the jealous hATrZs around:
“Although I do not normally respond to furors in the press which malign me unjustly…”
Uh, Danny honey, nobody said you caused “the parking crisis.” But back in the day, the Chronicle said you had 26 permits. Were they lying? Oh, I see, they weren’t. Your witness, counselor.
Tags: 2010, bay area, california, danielle steel, meter maids, mta, neighborhood, NOPA, nopna, pacific heights, parking, pco, permits, San Francisco, SFMTA, specific whites, Writer, yearly
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